The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.
Since it's Mother's Day here this weekend, I thought I would share a snippet of a character with their mother, and the first one I thought of is actually the book I'm writing now. To Know a Dragon Spy is the second Dragons of Ivria book. There's more intrigue and a new romance and dragon shifters, of course. Natasha Snow has already done the cover, and I can't wait to share it because it's just gorgeous but that's for another day. Today, I have a snippet for you of Felix with his aunt/adoptive mother, the former queen (and mother of the current king, Felix's cousin). They don't get to see each other too often since she moved away, but she has come back to attend the king's wedding. I'm sure this will end up edited and changed before the book is finished, but here's Felix and his mother settling in for a good chat. If you read To Love the Dragon King, you've met Felix before, but Elysande is making her debut in this book.
The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.
Since it's Mother's Day here this weekend, I thought I would share a snippet of a character with their mother, and the first one I thought of is actually the book I'm writing now. To Know a Dragon Spy is the second Dragons of Ivria book. There's more intrigue and a new romance and dragon shifters, of course. Natasha Snow has already done the cover, and I can't wait to share it because it's just gorgeous but that's for another day. Today, I have a snippet for you of Felix with his aunt/adoptive mother, the former queen (and mother of the current king, Felix's cousin). They don't get to see each other too often since she moved away, but she has come back to attend the king's wedding. I'm sure this will end up edited and changed before the book is finished, but here's Felix and his mother settling in for a good chat. If you read To Love the Dragon King, you've met Felix before, but Elysande is making her debut in this book.
Felix sat and reached immediately for the pot on the table to pour himself a cup of the tisane, the bright scent rising on the steam. He inhaled deeply, then paused when he heard voices and then light footsteps coming in his direction. A moment later, Felix smiled when a woman appeared in the doorway.
“Aunt.” Felix stood, but Aunt Elysande had crossed the room to embrace him before he could move. “I didn’t know you would be here this morning. I was going to visit you later.”
“I thought it would be easier if I came and saw you all at once.” She took the chair he offered her. “I went to Lysander’s rooms, but he was in a meeting. So I visited the children, then I came to see my second son.”
Those last few words warmed him through, because she meant them and the love in them was so apparent to him. He didn’t remember his parents well; he hadn’t had them long. His aunt and uncle could’ve treated him only as a ward, though they never would have, or as a beloved nephew, as they had before his parents’ deaths, but instead, they'd opened their hearts to him as their son, a third child they treated no differently from the other two. And they became a second set of parents to him.
“I’m so glad you did.”
“Aunt.” Felix stood, but Aunt Elysande had crossed the room to embrace him before he could move. “I didn’t know you would be here this morning. I was going to visit you later.”
“I thought it would be easier if I came and saw you all at once.” She took the chair he offered her. “I went to Lysander’s rooms, but he was in a meeting. So I visited the children, then I came to see my second son.”
Those last few words warmed him through, because she meant them and the love in them was so apparent to him. He didn’t remember his parents well; he hadn’t had them long. His aunt and uncle could’ve treated him only as a ward, though they never would have, or as a beloved nephew, as they had before his parents’ deaths, but instead, they'd opened their hearts to him as their son, a third child they treated no differently from the other two. And they became a second set of parents to him.
“I’m so glad you did.”
I'll have more about To Know a Dragon Spy for you soon. Until then, check out the first Dragons of Ivria book, To Love the Dragon King, here. Thank you for reading today!
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